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Help Prevent the Demolition of a Historic Echo Park Neighborhood

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The Right Site Coalition is encouraging the community to help stop the needless destruction of the historic homes on the proposed elementary school site known as Site 9A. The neighbors may have been run out of their homes with illegal threats and intimidation by real estate contractors working for LAUSD, but the historic fabric of this abandoned community still stands. (more…)

There Goes the Neighborhood

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

there-goes-the-neighborhood-logoThe Los Angeles Times reports on declining enrollment in neighborhoods where rents and property values have been soaring. Unfortunately this news is a little late for those who owned homes on the proposed Los Angeles Unified School District’s 9A Site. Even though LAUSD was well aware of this downward population trend long ago the school district used fear and intimidation to cajole these longtime residents from a total of 50 housing units. Now Echo Park has boarded up homes where a vibrant community once existed. Previously.

Q&A with Councilmember Garcetti

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

milkshake1Q&A with Councilmember Garcetti in the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen.

The Seattle Times interviews Seattle native Don Normark regarding his Chavez Ravine photographs that provide a timeless snapshot of the human-scale losses that occur when cities sacrifice community for long-term stability.

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